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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2024-05-16T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 195
title: "Issue 195; May 2 - 16, 2024"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</a></li>
    <li><a href="#ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</a></li>
    <li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</a></li>
    <li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</a></li>
    <li><a href="#volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</a></li>
    <li><a href="#support">Support</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Kraken to delist XMR in Germany. Users are advised to withdraw coins to self-custodial wallets or exchange their Monero for supported assets such as BTC or EUR by July 10th, 2024. <a href="https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/kraken-powered-by-dlt-finance-asset-support" target="_blank">Announcement</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>LocalMonero/AgoraDesk to sunset operations by November 7th, 2024. New sign-ups and ad postings are disabled, new trades were disabled on May 14th, 2024. Blog <a href="https://localmonero.co/blog/announcements/winding-down" target="_blank">post</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>LocalMonero/AgoraDesk <a href="https://github.com/AgoraDesk-LocalMonero/agoradesk-app-foss/releases/tag/v1.1.38" target="_blank">v1.1.38</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Cake v4.16.2 and Monero.com v1.13.2 <a href="https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/releases/tag/v4.16.2" target="_blank">released</a> with hardware wallet support for BTC, ETH and MATIC; security enhancements, bug fixes and generic improvements.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Stack Wallet <a href="https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_222" target="_blank">v2.0.0</a> exiting Beta, adding Bitcoin taproot support, Tor support for multiple coins (no XMR/WOW yet,) bug fixes and enhancements. Blog <a href="https://stackwallet.com/2024/05/14/coming-out-of-beta.html" target="_blank">post</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Gupax <a href="https://github.com/hinto-janai/gupax/releases/tag/v1.3.7" target="_blank">v1.3.7</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Coin swapping aggregator OrangeFren released their forum for Bitcoin and Monero cypherpunks. Reddit <a href="https://i.opnxng.com/r/Monero/comments/1coosq5/orangefren_forum_monerokon_ticket_giveaway_exch/" target="_blank">thread</a>; <a href="https://forum.orangefren.com/" target="_blank">Forum</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Peer-to-peer marketplace NoOnes has listed Monero in their Silent Pool. Now you can trade XMR-to-crypto or crypto-to-XMR on their website. X <a href="https://nitter.poast.org/NoonesTech/status/1790370991887073437" target="_blank">announcement</a>; Silent <a href="https://noones.com/silent-pool" target="_blank">Pool</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Haveno DEX <a href="https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/releases/tag/1.0.3" target="_blank">v1.0.3</a> including improved resilience of the trade protocol and various improvements, updates and fixes.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Haveno Reto is live. You can run and execute trades on your own Haveno instance, XMR mainnet. Lemmy <a href="https://monero.town/post/3159232" target="_blank">thread</a>; Trading <a href="https://blog.nihilism.network/servers/haveno-client-f2f/index.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a>; GitHub <a href="https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/blob/master/docs/create-mainnet.md" target="_blank">Docs</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Matrix user zia announced Tim - Trade in Monero. An .onion LocalMonero alternative to buy and sell XMR for fiat currencies. Keep in mind it is still in beta and its creator is anonymous; tread with caution. <a href="https://libera.monerologs.net/monero/20240516#c378057" target="_blank">Announcement</a>; .onion <a href="http://timappziaaomrpyiivzijuat4obusumxoipcrw5rinugcfq4bffuenad.onion/" target="_blank">site</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk brought J.W. Verret on, a practicing lawyer and law professor at George Mason University. They talk about the Bitcoin Fog trial, analyze the indictments of Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet developers, how this all may affect privacy, Bitcoin and Monero. Peep it: <a href="https://iteroni.com/watch?v=ZLJMyQ9dcOI" target="_blank">video</a>; <a href="https://www.monerotalk.live/privacy-is-pro-national-security-j-w-verret-310" target="_blank">audio</a>.</h4>
</div>

<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 18, 2024 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">MoneroKon 2024 Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monerokon" target="_blank">#monerokon</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monerokon:matrix.org" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 20, 2024 (Monday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Seraphis Wallet Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#no-wallet-left-behind" target="_blank">#no-wallet-left-behind</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#no-wallet-left-behind:monero.social" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 21, 2024 (Tuesday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Cuprate Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#cuprate" target="_blank">#cuprate</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#cuprate:monero.social" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 22, 2024 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>

<p>Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/450" target="_blank">New Monero Website</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/456" target="_blank">hinto-janai full-time work on Cuprate (3 months)</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/454" target="_blank">I2P SAMv3</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p>Find more <a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/" target="_blank">here</a>. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-7.html" target="_blank">j-berman full-time development (3 months)</a> by j-berman.</p>
    <p>Raised <b>300.01 of 376</b> XMR.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>

<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>3150298</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.186 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>47.59</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>39643</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 16, 2024.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-05161.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat" id="price-stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,367,822,196</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>05/16/24</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="05/16/24">$130.45</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+12.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-13.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="05/16/24">€120.01</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+10.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-13.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="05/16/24">₿0.001984</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-7.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-6.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-64.6%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 16, 2024.</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph</p>

![XMR Price Graph 05/02/24-05/16/24](/img/weekly-chart-05161.png.png "XMR Price Graph 05/02/24-05/16/24")

Sources: <a href="https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero" target="_blank">miningpoolstats.stream</a>; <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>; <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/blocks" target="_blank">localmonero.co blocks</a>.

<h3 id="volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</h3>

<p>If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.</p>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Test Monero Core Software</a></p>
    <p>Anyone with moderate technical ability is encouraged to try to build and run Monero nightlies. Do not trust it with your Monero, but feel free to open an Issue on GitHub as problems arise. Instructions to build on your OS of choice can be found <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Getting Started with Helping Monero</a></p>
    <p>If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200805013127/https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/getting-started-helping-monero.html" target="_blank">this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero</a> from the Monero Outreach Workgroup. </p>
</div>

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